Pocket.



STATE@ Pit FIPI,

DAVID S. BERNS'IEIN, OF EVANSVILLE, INDIANA.

POCKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July i3, i915.

Application .filed November 25, 1914. Serial No. 873,995,

to which it appertains to make and use thev same.

'lhis invention relates to' apparel, and more especially to pockets having features of safety so that the contents may not be lost out; and the object of the invention is to produce four pockets in one, all of them being angular and two of them triangular. As far as my experiments have gone, the invention finds its greatest utility as a pocket' for overalls, and I have successfully applied it to the apron which rises at the front of a pair of overalls. I'Iereon its safety features 'become extremely useful, because the working' man so often stoops over during his labors that he frequently loses things out of his overall pockets. Again, as this ,ejarnlent safe and accessible point.

is usually worn over the trousers which latter tl'iemselves have pockets wherein he carries things of greater value and rare use, the

. overall pocket or pockets are utilized for his ruler, his pencil or pencils, perhaps matches or coins, and other little articles which he may often need-yet does not care to withdraw from his trousers pockets while his hands are soiled. Finally the nature of the average laboring manls work is such as to cause him to often lie prone upon the floor or ground or to lean up against some object, and he might crush things in most pockets; also he. frequently stoops, and might lose things out of the ordinary pocket as has been suggested and the result is that overalls usually have but a single pocket placed at a By my present invention this pocket is divided into a number of compartments best adapted in shape and disposition for the articles which are in all probability to be carried therein, due regard being had for the features of safety suggested.

Ihe details of the invention will be found in the following speci ticatioal and claims, and are illustrated in the accompanying drawings wherein Figure 1 is a front elevation of a pair of overalls with one of my improved pockets' applied to its apron, and Fir@ is an enlarged elevation of the pocket itself, stitched to any piece of cloth.

In Fig. 1 the letters L designate the legs of a pair of overalls which reach up' to a waist-band IV, A is the apron rising' from this lwaist-band and having a middle up-v right seam M. S are the Suspenders usually employed7 and P designates a buckle. In

Fig 2 I have used the same letter A to designate any piece of cloth to which the pocket 1s sewed or attached by suitable means.

Thepocket forming the subject-matter of this invention is best illustrated in detail in Fig. Q, although it is shown applied in Fig. 1. Its back is formed by the cloth A. Its front is formed by a piece of cloth 1 which may be of single or double thickness and which is by preference of the saine character and color as the cloth A, and in ordinary cveralls it is convenient to sew this front piece 1 to the back piece A by ordinary stitches passing,r through the two pieces as shown. )is illustrated, the front piece l is cut in the shape of ay trapezoid, its upright side edges heingparallel. its upper end atright angles to its side edges, and its lower end incliningdownward to the left; but this specillc sha e is not necessary although I prefer it. eginningat Lthe upper righthand corner 2, the right edge 3 s stitched as at 4l (two rows of stitching herein shown to the rear cloth A, and the Stitching` is carried down to the. corner 5 beneath; then it is carried along the lower end 6 as at?, to the lower left corner 8, and thence upward alone` the left edge 9 as at 10, terminating at the point 11 and preferably being reinforced by stout cross stitching 12 as indicated hy the heavier dotted lines. From this point to the upper left corner 13, the edge 14 of the front cloth 1 is not stitched to the rear cloth A, but the lines of stitchingr are carried along on the front 1 as indicated at 15 togive this portion of the device greater strength, Iand doubtless the cloth will he turned in over the edge 14 and stitched to itself so as to be double along what is to form the open mouth of one of the pockets or one"`of the cou'ipartmcnts of the whole pocket. From the corner 13 to the corner 2 across the upper end of the pocket, the upper pocket being indicated at 33.

end yof the piece of cloth numbered 1 is left a little full and is attached to the cloth only at two points 2O and 27 between said corners as described below; whereas the pocket at its corners, and the upper reinforce 18 stands above the pocket entrance 14. A second bias line of stitching 19 substantially parallel with the first is then carried from' the point 20 on the upper end of the fabric 1 downward to the point 21, where it is omitted to the point 22 and then taken up again and carried thence downward to the point 23--this line together with the line `17 producing a long oblique pocket 24 whose mouth is indicated at 25. Obviously the bias line of stitching 19 near its upper end crosses the horizontal lines of stitching 16, and while the latter are through the front thickness 1 of cloth only, the line 19 passes through both the thicknesses 1 and A, as does the line 17, so that the pocket is firmly attached to the goods. An oblique line of stitching 26 starts fromthe point 27 and is carried down at an angle to the line 19 which it meets at the point 21, thereby forming a triangular compartment or` pocket 28 whose entrance or mouth is indicated at 29. Parallel with the line 26 a seccorner 2 and is carried down to the point 22,

being made quite'heavy or reinforced at 31 at the upper right-hand corner of the pocket, and passing through both thicknesses 1 and A, as does the stitching 26. Thereby is produced a long oblique pocket 32 for a pencil or other small article, the mouth of this Across its lower end-which opens into the long pocket 24.--the line 19 of stitches is interrupted so that the line 17 of stitches must form the lower end of this pocket 32. The long pocket 24 is obviously for a longer pencil or for the pencil when it is new, whereas after it be'- comesshorter it can be put into the pocket 82. The triangularpocket 28 may be used for matches. The large triangular pocket 38, whose entrance or mouth is indicated at 14,`may receive the ruler or could, in fact,

carry small change, the` pipe, or other articles which the user may not care to have stick out of his pocket. The trapezoidal shape of the front piece 1 'of fabric is now seen .to have its use, for its inclined lower end G makes vthis large ypocket 38 deeper at the corner 8 vand thereby increases its capacity. V

I have spoken Yherein of`stitching, and doubtless thenpocket will be formed by that means under ordinary circumstances; but I reserve the right to employ any other means of attaching the pocket l to the fabric A, and it is lpossible that other means might be desirable if the pocket itself were not of cloth. In this last respect, also, I do not wish to be limited. Furthermore the bias pocket 24vm'ight run from the corner 2 to the'corner 8 if it were desired that it have greater depth, and then the oblique pocket 32 would run from the corner 13 to the bias pocket. This might be accomplished by inclining the lower end 6 in the opposite direction, or by leaving it as it is shown and inclining the lines 17, 19, 2G and 30 in the opposite direction. I have spoken of the subdivisions 24, 28, 32 and 38 as pockets herein, whereas in reality they are subdi visions or compartments of the main pocket which as an entirety is formed o f the front sheet of fabric 1 Astitched to the goods A, I am, of course, aware that pockets have been sub-divided by lines of stitching and otherwise, and that they have been reinforced at the points of'greatest strain; but I consider it especially advantageous to have a long, narrow, and rather small pocket such as 24 passing obliquely through the device, and lanother such as 32 intersecting it; and I find experience that if pencils are placed in both of these, the shorter pencil will rest against' the other and neither will so readily become lost out. While I have spoken of pencils, it is obvious that any tools or implements of suitable size might be substituted therefor, and vto this end the proportions of parts may be varied with considerable freedom. While I have illustrated the pocket as applied to the apron A of a pair of overalls, it is quite obvious that it could be applied to the overalls themselves, to the cloth of a coat, or to any other garment or piece of cloth.

What is claimed is: I 1. A quadrilateral pocket having a long compartment eXtending-ob'liquely from corner to corner thereof and open at its upper end, and anothergcompartment extending from the remaining upperrcorner to and opening into the first-named compartment.

2. The herein described pocket' of trapezoidal configuration comprising an oblique compartment extending from one upper corner to the opposite lower corner, a second oblique compartment extending from the remaining upper corner obliquely downward in the opposite direction and opening into lthe firstnamed oblique compartment, a triangular compartment between these two compartments, and a fourth con'lpartmentf beneath the first-named oblique compartment and opening out the side of the pocket. 3. The' herein described compartment terial, a rear layer, a line ofistitchingaround the periphery of the front layer and con-l y and opening out the side of the front layer,

p necting it to the rear layer excepting Where substantially as described. 10

both layers and producing one bia-s comthe mouths of the .Various compartments In testimony whereof I affix my signature occur, and other lines of stitching through .in presence of two witnesses.

DAVID S. BERNSTEIN. partment, an oblique compartment running Witnesses: into the bias compartment, and a triangular BEN N. PAUL, compartment beneath the bias compartment Jos. C. Honours. 

